Engineering Manager, Boeing

>> My name is Brian Budzinski. And currently, I serve as an engineering manager for the Boeing company. I work in Seal Beach, California. And what we do is we do aircraft structural repairs. So my team actually serves on the 737NG wing and empennage. So to kind of break it down further, the NG is what Southwest and Alaska Airlines they primarily fly. So we focus on the wing side of things and the empennage, which is the tail of the aircraft, for all the structural repairs for the aircraft. Yeah. So similar to cars, aircraft have to go through regularly scheduled maintenance. And so, the maintenance schedules are denoted by letters. So you have an A check, a B check, C check and a D check. And the further you go along the letters, the heavier the maintenance is. So once you get to like a D check, you're actually tearing the seats out of the aircraft, tearing the interior out of the aircraft. You're taking the engines off. And so, when you're looking at the aircraft in that much detail, you're really looking for any kind of corrosion, any kind of cracks. And so, the aircraft has what is called a structural repair manual, which the operators can usually do a certain amount of maintenance on their own. And if it exceeds what's in the manual, then they have to contact us at Boeing, and then we have to analyze to develop a repair or to tell them that it's good as is. So a structural repair manual breaks the aircraft down into parts. So you have the fuselage of the aircraft. You have the wings. And then it breaks it down further. You the flaps, the ailerons, the slats, and all the parts of the wings. And then it also breaks the wings down further into the ribs and things like that. And so, what it does is it looks at every component of the aircraft and it gives allowable damages. So if the damage were to exceed what is in the manual, then they typically are to contact Boeing, and then we develop a repair for them.